· Private foundation
The Alexander Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANNE'S EPISOCPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN SERVICE | $10,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE | $5,000 |
| AMANDA SCHULTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| GRREAT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +50%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +31%- TLTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +18%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- SAST ANNES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
International food policy research institute's (ifpri) vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. ifpri's mission is to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alexander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alexander Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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